I have to tell you that that website is AMAZING. I don't think I've ever seen such rich use of data and such a robust screen presentations on page after page.

This is a great website with lots of useful data. But -- Where is the War in Iraq in your list? Nowhere? That omission is first of all glaring and, in my view, an error. The 2.4 trillions of dollars squandered by Mr. Bush and his acolytes in Iraq have been stolen from the pockets of ordinary Americans.

Because we're wasting it there, we don't have money here. Those of us who want more money for education, for affordable housing, for health insurance may be stymied by the systematic looting of the Treasury by Mr. Bush. Putting an end to an evil and immoral war is a good in and of itself. However, your decision to ignore the impact of war spending on us is, I believe, a short-sighted decision because it ignores an issue key to many others.

I'd like to see a toolkit for holding the current mayoral administration here accountable for its policies vis a vis the middle class. It seems that our Mayor Bloomberg doesn't regard himself as accountable to middle- or low-income New Yorkers. (It is shocking that the DMI should find him a suitable recipient of the Drum Major for Justice award.)

Elizabeth, I think we actually do a lot of accountability work on the Mayor and others in the city government right here on the DMIBlog.

Doesn’t Congress’s to-date performance teach us that the U.S. Senate’s “to harm” continues on military personnel and now on you? The U.S. Supreme Court has left correction to the U.S. Congress. [3] In 2007 Congress still has not remedied the 1994 U.S. Senate Report’s [6]: 1. “During the last 50 years, hundreds of thousands of military personnel have been involved in human experimentation and other intentional exposures conducted by the Department of Defense (DOD), often without a servicemember's knowledge or consent.”; INTRODUCTION, 1st. Paragraph, 1st. Sentence. 2. “most Americans would agree that the use of soldiers as unwitting guinea pigs in experiments that were designed to harm them, at least temporarily, is not ethical.”; INTRODUCTION, 3d. paragraph, in part the last sentence. And 3. “The findings and conclusions contained in this report are those of the majority staff and do not necessarily reflect the views of the members of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.” Chairman.

Now on you one of the U.S. Senate’s “Lessons Spanning Half a Century”. [6] In December 2006 the Executive Branch “Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)” was established. [7] Starting on the general public in 2007 is BARDA’s Research and Development (R&D). Continued is the DOD “Biomedical” Project 112 [8]! Under the cover of its "NATIONAL SECURITY MISSIONS", BARDA is not hindered by oversight and accountability for its “unwitting guinea pigs”!


Each Executive Branch (DOD, CIA & BARDA) Project completes the R&D process. The prior experimention lessons learned are reviewed. The then Scope of Work defines what the experiment is “designed” to do. The how, where, when and who is identified. The conducted RESEARCHED cause and effects are closely followed. From the results are DEVELOPED safe production, use, the needed for treatment and protection, e.g., the DOD manufacturers handling of hazardous materials such as Depleted Uranium (DU) and Agent Orange (AO). All is in the Executive Branch record! Under the cover of “NATIONAL SECURITY” the revealing treatment evidence: 1. Is not cause identified in a subject’s Medical History, so that they never the wiser become. The deceived victim’s “to harm” effects are not Medical History recorded, therefore not addressed! Prevented are Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and independent physician follow up evaluations. And 2. For veterans’ the resulting disabilities are not in the VA “schedule of... disabilities”!

Many of the U.S. Senate “to harm" lessons learned were in direct disobedience of the DOD Secretary's TOP SECRET, the subject must agree to order. [2] Then 1953 known by the Secretary's of all Services, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and their R&D Board. During the U.S. Senate’s reported 50 years, most of the veteran “to harm” service records were destroyed in a 1973 National Personnel Records Center fire. Those that survived had all witnesses censored by Congress’s 1974 Privacy Act! This veteran’s 1952-1958 then retained records survived this fire. Evidence resulting in the to-date VA ignored “MPerR PERMANENT” “SURGEON HQ ARRC JUN 58 MEDICALLY DISQUALIFIED FOR MILITARY SERVICE”! 1952- 2007 documented is how an unprotected jet-engine 87,381 to over 699,051 sound pressure experiment is covered up. The “Veterans Right to Know Act” was proposed in the 2005 and H.R. 4259 [109th] 2006 Congress. It never became law.

Continued in 2007 is the reasoning of, ""IT WAS NECESSARY "TO CONCEAL THESE ACTIVITIES FROM THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IN GENERAL," BECAUSE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE "UNETHICAL AND ILLICIT ACTIVITIES WOULD HAVE SERIOUS REPERCUSSIONS IN POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES AND WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL TO THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF ITS MISSION."" U.S. Supreme Court 1987 STANLEY Case; Footnote 4, Page 688 on its proven 1958 CIA experiment on U.S. Army personnel. [3] The STANLEY Case confirms the Supreme Court 1950 military FERES Case [1] that death by a barracks fire was an “incident to service”. STANLEY treats the from 1953 order disobeyed DOD 1958 “to harm” derelictions of duty as also an “incident to service”! The next year was the U.S. Congress’s few 1988 Veterans’ Judicial Review Act. Established was the Veteran’s Legislative severely restricted, Article I Court. "The court may not review the schedule of ratings for disabilities or the policies underlying the schedule.", i.e., the R&D experimental effects and their “designed to harm" causes! The Veterans Court Chief Judge's no teeth statement with his noted VA ignoring of the Court’s decisions! [5] The Executive Branch, Secretary of the VA was given FINAL DECISION authority on these issues. [9] Included is the power of NO APPEAL to this LEGISLATIVE Veterans Court or to the independent U.S. Judicial Branch Courts. The DOD needed for treatment policy revealing evidence is withheld during the VA “disabilities” procedure. If allowed an APPEAL, it is not part of the record at the Article I Veterans Court. It’s also missing during the next step at the U.S. Judicial Branch Article III, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

There now is no 63 years later “Veterans Right to Know”. After they complete Honorable Service despite the efforts of some [6] Congress has not given back to veterans these rights. Revealed would be the few’s corrupt for the greater good of all. As accomplished by the end justifies the “to harm" means! A few key members in Congress, in their dishonor to those that serve, are still preventing treatment and correction! Lost are those prior to service rights that convicted rapists and murderers keep! [4]

WITH CONGRESS’S TO-DATE BEHAVIOR, DO NOT THE U.S. SUPREME COURT AND U.S. SENATE PROVEN FOR THE GREATER GOOD “TO HARM” EXPERIMENTS CONTINUE? NOW BARDA ON YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES? PLEASE, HOLD YOUR MEMBERS IN THE U.S. CONGRESS ACCOUNTABLE! IT WOULD BE MOST APPRECIATED IF YOU WOULD PASS THIS ON TO OTHERS SO THAT THEY MAY DO THE SAME. THANK YOU.

REFERENCES:

[1] U.S. Supreme Court, Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135, 146 (1950).

[2] DOD Secretary's 26 February 1953 NO non-consensual, human experiment’s Memo pages 343-345. George J. Annas and Michael A. Grodin, “The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code; Human Rights in Human Experimentation" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). In REFERENCE [6] as NOTES 72, 168 & 169.

[3] U.S. SUPREME COURT, JUNE 25, 1987, U.S. V. STANLEY, 107 S. CT. 3054 (VOLUME 483 U.S., SECTION 669, PAGES 699 TO 710). In REFERENCE [6] cited in NOTE 169.

[4] U.S. State Dept., "U.S. Report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights July 1994, Article 7".

[5] Chief Judge and colleague statements, Court of Veterans Appeals, Annual Judicial Conference, Fort Meyer, VA., 17 & 18 October 1994. www.goodnet.com/~heads/nebeker.html

[6] U.S. Senate December 8, 1994 REPORT 103-97 "Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans' Health? Lessons Spanning Half a Century." Hearings Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 103rd Congress 2nd Session. With NOTES 1 to 170.

[7] Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), Bill S. 3678 2006. Signed into law 16 December 2006.

[8] “Project 112 (Including Project SHAD) Home” chemical and biological experiments; www.1.va.gov/shad/

[9] United States Code (USC) Title 38, 511. Decisions of the Secretary; finality. www.law.cornell.edu